Ignatius, David
United States

David Ignatius is a syndicated columnist for The Washington Post and former executive editor of the International Herald Tribune. His columns have won him the 2000 Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary and a 2004 Edward Weintal Prize. In addition to writing his column, Ignatius is co-moderator of PostGlobal, a new experiment that links top journalists and commentators around the world in a continuous online discussion of important issues. In 1993, Ignatius served as the Post’s assistant managing editor in charge of business news. He also served as foreign editor from 1990 to 1992, supervising the paper’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. From 1986 to 1990, he was editor of the Outlook section. Before joining the Post in 1986, Ignatius spent 10 years as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, becoming the paper’s Middle East correspondent from 1980 to 1983. He returned to Washington in 1984 as the Journal’s chief diplomatic correspondent and received the Edward Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting in 1985. He received his B.A. from Harvard College in 1973, as well as a degree in economics from King’s College, Cambridge. He has published articles in Foreign Affairs, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New Republic. Ignatius has written six novels, including Agents of Innocence (W.W. Norton), A Firing Offense, (Random House) and Body of Lies (W.W. Norton).

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Indyk, Martin S.
USA

Martin S. Indyk is the director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. He served as U.S. Ambassador to Israel from 1995-97 and 2000-01. Before his first posting to Israel, Indyk was special assistant to President Clinton and senior director for Near East and South Asian Affairs at the National Security Council. He also served as assistant secretary of state for Near East Affairs from 1997-2000. Before entering the U.S. government, Indyk was founding executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He currently serves as vice president of the American Friends of Yitzhak Rabin Center, and chairman of the International Council of the New Israel Fund. Indyk received a B.Econ from Sydney University and a Ph.D. from the Australian National University.

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